14 October, 2021

Nobel Physics (1991&2021) and Granular Matter

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Nobel Physics and Granular Matter


Three researchers have won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on describing complex physical systems — including foundational research that created a pioneering mathematical model of Earth’s climate and predicted that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere would raise global temperatures.

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann share half of the 10-million-Swedish-kronor (US$1.15-million) prize for this modelling. Theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi at the Sapienza University of Rome receives the other half for his contributions to the theory of complex systems. His work has affected many areas, from neuroscience to how granular materials pack, the Nobel committee said in its announcement on 5 October.

“These are two different prizes, but there is the common theme that has to do with this order, these fluctuations together that can give rise to something that we can understand and predict,” said Thors Hans Hansson, chair of the physics Nobel committee. “We can predict what is happening with the climate in the future if we know how to code the chaotic weather.”

References related to Nobel Laureate and Granular Matter

Giorgio Parisi (2021, Physics)

Long-range anomalous decay of the correlation in jammed packings
P Rissone, EI Corwin, G Parisi - Physical Review Letters, 2021

Inferring the particle-wise dynamics of amorphous solids from the local structure at the jamming point
RDH Rojas, G Parisi, F Ricci-Tersenghi - Soft Matter, 2021

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991, Physics)

Many papers on the granular matter, polymers

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ZynkcNEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works



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